good morning. hurricane watch. storm alerts issued for bermuda as bill, a major category 3 storm, churns up dangerous waves and rip tides along the east coast. we're tracking that storm live. hero's welcome. despite a warning from president obama, a big crowd in libya greets the only man convicted of bombing pan am flight 103. after his release from prison. this morning, his attorney speaks outñi in a live exclusiv interview. and on top of the world. the dare devil standing on that plane is just 8 years old. we'll meet the world's youngest wing walker, "toy," friday, august 21st, 2009.çó captions paid for by nbc-universal television

and good morning. welcome to "today" on a friday rning. i'm matt lauer. >> and i'm ann curry in for meredith this morning. good news, hurricane bill is likely to stay out to sea, that's what forecasters are predicting. bad news, there's dangerous conditions up and down the east coast. >> forecasters are warning eachgers from florida toew angl watch out for waves up to 22 feet and also strong rip tides. the threat is more significant in bermuda where more storm watches and warnings are in effect. bill and hillary clinton are vacationing there. a live report from bermuda and al's track of the storm in a few minutes. the murder of ans aspiring model. police in california are releasing chilling new information about how she died

and have formally charged her ex-husband, a former star on a reality tv show with murder. with the latest on the international manhunt that's under way to track him down. plus an exclusive interview with mark lester, one of michael jackson's best friends and the god father of the pop star's three children. he's come forward claiming that he could, he could be the biological father of 11-year-old paris jackson. this morning, he is live in our studio. he's brought along his daughter, hariette, who is 15. we'll let you decide at home if you see a resemblance between paris and hariette and mark and we'll talk to mark a little later on. let us begin on this friday morning with hurricane bill getting set to bear down on the island ofb bermuda. the weather channel's jim cantore is there. good morning with you. >> reporter: good morning, to you, matt. with each high tide we lose more of the beach. that's amazing, because the storm is over 4000 miles away. at its closest, 220 miles away

at 8:00 saturday morning. we have a lot of tide cycles between then and a lot of beach we're going to lose. residents not too worried. winds will not be hurricane force but we expect tropical storm force and that means some power outages but this is an area where airplanes do not get a chance to sit on the ground during a storm like this so all aircraft will have to be off the island and we're expecting that to be done later on this afternoon. most vacationers who wanted to get off will. some, however, will have to ride out the storm. matt, back to you. >> jim cantore from the weather channel, thank you very much. >> al is tracking the hurricane, good morning. >> good morning. 425 miles south of bermuda, 8 to 165 miles south of cape hatteras, category 3 storm, disorganized, a little, the path between bermuda and the coast of the united states. the good news is, no landfall. the bad news for the eastern part of the united states is that we are going to be looking at some dangerous rip currents

and strong winds and we're also looking at waves. some areas along the outer banks of the carolinas, 16 to 22-foot waves. 8 to 12 foot waves saturday. into sunday as bill gets closer, you can see 15 to 20-foot waves along the eastern edges of massachusetts and new england, 9 to 14-foot waves and the dangerous rip tides are going to be a big problem. you cannot stay in that water. in fact here's what happens. this is where a rip current develops. you can see as those waves come in and they start to continue in, in a parallel fashion, the water comes in, and then out and you get caught in it, you cannot get out of that. what you have to do is swim parallel to the shore until you get out of that rip current but the best way to stay out of a rip current is not to get in the water in the first place. it is going to be rough and when we come back later, not only do we have to worry about rip currents in the northeast but major, major rainfall coming up this weekend, a real washout to talk about. matt? >> all right, al roker, thank

you very much. now to the growing outrage in the u.s. to the release of the only man convicted in the bombing of pan am flight 103 and the celebration that greeted that man when he returned home to libya. nbc's donna dawna friesen. >> reporter: he returned home last night a free man, elsewhere, the condemnation continues. a triumphant return home, abdul baset ali al megrahi dressed in a dark suit stepped off the plane in tripoli, hailed as a hero, escorted and embraced by libyan leader moammar gadhafi's son, cheered by hundreds who waited hours for megrahi's arrival, it was a very public snub to president obama who called megrahi's release a mistake and asked libya to show some restraint. >> we're now in contact with the libyan government and want to

make sure that if n fact, this transfer has taken place, he is not welcomed back in some way, but instead should be under house arrest. >> reporter: said to be termi l terminally ill with prostate cancer, me grae gra he was freed from a scottish jail where he was freed from a life sentence, an act of compassion, but for many of the victims of bombing flight 103 it was an insalt. stephanie better thanstein's husband was killed. >> it's ñidisgusting. every person in the uk and scotland should be ashamed of himself. >> reporter: for her and so many others, megrahi is a terrorist getting mercy their loved ones did not. there are those who believe megrahi should be free, like jim swier who lost his daughter on the flight. >> i don't think he had anything to do with the murder of my daughter. >> reporter: after his release he issued a statement saying to

those who bear me ill will, i can only say i do not returnñi that to you. ordeal is not ended by my return to libya. it may never end for me until i die. an innocent dying man or a mass murderer set free, megrahi is back home with his family, leaving many doubts about whether justice has been served. the scottish parliament is being recalled from vacation on monday to debate megrahi's release and one is calling for inquiries into his release and conviction, saying there are still too many unanswered questions. >> dawnaen is friesen in scotland, thank you very much. to the man who successfully negotiated his release, megrahi's attorney tony kelly, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> no remorse no, admission of guilt. he continues to insist he is innocent andouple that with the images many americans and relatives of victims are seeing

of his hero's welcome back home in libya, do you understand why there's an awful lot of pain here this morning? >> i certainly do understand the pain and unfortunately, mr. megrahi can't possibly completely empathize with that because he asserts his innocence and that assertion of innocence is not simply his, but we have had the case put into considerable detail by scottish review commission, it was me who asserted the case for a second appeal and they expressed grave misgivings about the conviction saying mr. megrahi may have suffered a miscarriage of justice. >> you're saying the scottish courts were saying more he deserves compassion because he may or may not be terminally ill, they have serious doubts about whether he had anything to do with this bombing in the first place? >> no, there are two separate processes we're talking about here, the scottish courts said to release mr. megrahi on a

compassionate basis, the justice minister mr. mcaskil decided that. there was a criminal appeal process and that was by mr. megrahi exercising as a right to appeal or to challenge the conviction, that was exercised by him as a result of the back to the courts. >> president obama says u.s. officials have been in touch with libyan officials. they didn't want this hero's welcome at all. it's too late for that. he got it. they wanted him to be held under house arrest until he dies. is there any chance the u.s. can have that input or impact on his situation in libya? >> i very much doubt that. remember, i don't think the message for him coming to libya is being hailed as a hero, i don't think that was the message on the airport that's a

criminal. he's been apart from his family or ten years. he is an innocent person in the minds of many people in libya and the minds of the family and he had come there to die so you see a warm welcome. i wouldn't say it's a hero's welcome at all. >> the mother of one of the victims was in our studio yesterday, mr. kelly, and she has doubts about his condition at all. she recounted the story of her own husband living with prostate cancer for the last ten years and doing well. in some ways they would like more proof of mr. megrahi's condition. if he recovers or stabilizes, does the scottish court have the right to take him back into custody? >> the release is a provisional, but the fact given he has traveled out of the jurisdiction as we would call it is beyond the perils of the reach of the scottish courts. for those who have any doubts of his conditn, the scottish minister's falling upon the

decision yesterday issued the public medical records and the reports upon which their decision is based and they are not medical reports from people who are employed by me who you may view as partisan or the libyan government, these are reports entirely independent and to say they doubt of his condition is fanciful. this is someone who basically had to be removed under armed guards to get to the hospital, run several blood tests on him, for this to be a concoction is beyond question as far as i can see. >> mr. kelly thank you for your time this morning. thanks very much. >> thank you. it is now 11 after the hour. here's ann. >> matt, thank you. now to washington and the raging debate over health care reform. president obama heads out on vacation today, not before he tried a new approach to get his message out. savannah guthrie is at the white house with more on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. as you mentioned with his

ambitious plan for health care reform under pressure, the president is looking for new ways to get his message out. this time he took to the air waves, from right here at the white house. >> this is the mike the smerconish program. >> reporter: live from washington the president's latest push for health care, a radio broadcast from the diplomatic room of the white house. the president seizing the opportunity to correct the record. >> --hat nobody's talking about the government administering all of health care, none of the proposals coming out of the white house propose giving coverage to illegal immigrants. >> reporter: taking calls live. >> how areou? >> i'm scared out of my mind talking to you here. >> reporter: one of the toughest questions came from an obama supporter, concerned the president ll compromise too much. >> i'm getting a little ticked off that it feels like the knees are buckling a little bit. >> i guarantee you, joe, we are going to get health care reform done. >> reporter: many liberals have

been angered by recent comments from the president and his team, some see as the administration's backing off its support of a government insurance option. >> the press got a little excited, and some folks on the left got a little excited about this. our position hasn't changed. this looks like a casual crowd. >> reporter: underscoring the need to shoreñr up his own part the president later held a pep talk/town hall with democratic activists, reminding supporters they'd been written off this time last year. >> cable was 24 hours açó ñidayr obama's lostñi his no carrierri

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twitter. in a new book, former homeland security saek tear tomzv ridge said he felt political pressure to raise the terror alert level days beforesn[ the 2004 presidential election. several forme bush administration officials are denying the claim. the alert level was not raised. it's almost the end of the road for the cash for clinkers program. the government announced thursday ther rebate program wl end monday night. sold worth nearly $2 billion in rebates. wall street is keeping an ear on fed chair ben bernanke as he delivers a speech in wyoming today. erin burnett is at the new york sto what are investors listening for today? >> hoda, this say big speech. you say wall street but yes, everyone's watching jackson hole, wyoming. all of the officials are gathered there and the fed chir what is the most important topic for our economy and global markets. they will pull back the emergency measures propping up= our economy. interest rates in the country

are at zero. the fed has trillions of dollars supporting lending. will they get it right? that's the main topic for&jñ markets today. back to you. >> thanks, erin. a southwest airlines flight was forced to return back to the oakland airport in california on thursday, after a male passenger exposed himself to the woman silting next to him and he punched her in the face, then he stripped all the way down and thençó he ft with other passengers and crew members, the man was arrested, the woman was hospitalized with some minor injuries. it is now 18 minutes past 7:00. no word on what's the what over there, what was going on.ñr >> i think we might be smart to go right past that. everything we're thinking of ends our career. >> a rough ride. >> absolutely.jf >> thanks, hoda. >> how was your birthday? >> thank you very much to the well wishers out there. we wish we could get rid of all this rough weather in the northeast from richmond up to concord, isolated tornadoes are possibl3 especially the northeast, southern new england,

trough of stationary front basically that's stuck because it bill, so thatntanro f stalls rod a aot ld lot of rain. how much rain? we aresu96 talking about some picking up, up to sixn'k inches t albany, on into new england, probably look for flash flood watchesa/a and warnings to go into effect sometime late tomorrow on into sunday, it is going to the warmest muggiest morning of the summer so far this friday morning. good morning. temperatures hovering in the upper 70s around the region. 79 in washington. we'll have highs reaching the low 90s, partly cloudy and we have a chance, in fact a likelihood of passing afternoon thunderstorms, some of which could produce damaging winds, other thundershowers likely tonight, on saturday as well. highs in the low 80s. then thundershower a

that's your latest weather. matt? >> al, thanks very much. now disturbing, new information in the grisly murder of an aspiring model. police charged that woman's ex-husband a former contestant on a reality tv show with the horrific crime this as they launch on international manhunt to find him. nbc's miguel almaguer has the latest. >> reporter: thursday police officially name their suspect. >> we now have an arrest warrant for ryan alexander jenkins. >> reporter: ryan je.r5ñ swimsuit model 28-year-oldñi picture of her marriage to jenkins in march surfaced but in june, he was charged with assaultin#&r his newlywed bride in suitcase, dumped in a trash bin outside of los angeles. >> ryani] jenkins is an animal. what he has done toñi jasmine i unspeakable. >> reporter: investigators say

fieroe was laughing with jenkins at a pokerournent in san diego, the night before her naked body was discovered. she was strangled to death, but it was a grisly crime t(scene. family members could barely investigators<  described whatd been done to her body. removed. >> after firstñ.' reporting fio as missing last eken, detectives say jenkins a native of canada disappeared. police found jenkins' car a ousand miles away! in.z northwestern washington state. investigators say he towed his speedboat there, prompting an international manhunt. >> at this time, while we believe he has crossed into canada, we arec not 100% sure o that and there will be no stone unturned, and we'll look under every rockxd for him. he needs to understand that he's now officially wanted. >> i'm going to be the best man of your life. >> reporter: before becoming the focus of a real life çimanhunt

jenkins starred on a vh-1 reality show where he was fiore's family members say she and her marriage with jenkins was annulled. >> jasmine was a beautiful person. she was a very caring individual, she loved her family and friends. 'q short in a savage murder. for "today," miguel almaguer, nbc news,ko los angeles. j on a friday morning is the godfather of michael jackson's childre3@ al paris jackson's biological father? mark lester speaks out for us in our studio in just a

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a warm and muggy summer morning under way. temperatures around the region in the upper 70s. we'll reach the low 90s. there is a likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms, isolated storms could produce damaging winds 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. thundershowers likely tonight and tomorrow. >> a live look with a problem along 95 northbound out of dumfries, police activity takes away the right lane and traffic very slow. elsewhere, 395, loaded up all lanes open, though, headed for

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7:30 on a friday morning, it's the 21st day of august, 2009, week end wrg it began, hot and humid in the northeast, hopefully it's nice where you are this morning but the temperatures will not stop pop sensation natasha bedingfield reporting live in our summer concert series, in just about a half hour from now. i'm matt lauer alongside ann curry who is in while meredith is enjoying time off. coming up this half hour is mark lester, the god father of his children and paris jackson's

biological father? he is with us for an exclusive interview. his daughter, hariette, who is 15, take a look at hariette and paris side by side and decide if there is a similarity. mark will talk to us about that in a couple of minutes. also ahead getting a lot of attention from men and women who want to look younger a new anti-wrinkle treatment that looks more natural than botox we're told and lasts up to four years. we're also going to find out about the side effects just ahead. also coming up, most parents won't let their kids walk to school by themselves. would you let your 8-year-old do this? yes, that plane is moving through the air. we're going to meet the world's youngest wing walker and the mother who lets him do that coming up. >> you know ifomething goes wrong the kid does something wrong you know what the mother says? >> what? >> you're grounded. >> you got a laugh out of heof that's good. let's begin with one of the biggest mysteries surrounding michael jackson, is he or someone else the biological faerpt father of his children?

nbc's jeff rossen has more. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. no question about it, mark lester had a close relationship with michael jackson. he was the godfather of michael's kids and michael was the god father to his kids but now, lester is jumping about 20 steps forward from that saying he donated sperm to michael and may be paris's biological dad. >> lisa, i want for more. >> reporter: you may not know the name mark lester but you probably know his work. >> oliver twist. >> reporter: he was a child actor and starred in the musical "oliver." more than 40 years later, mark lester is all grown up, living near london. he's a chiropractor. he's married with four kids of his own. lester was living a pretty normal life out of the spotlight until he threw himself back in with this bombshell. >> i believe that paris could be my daughter and i'd be willing to take a paternity test. >> reporter: paris as in this paris. >> daddy has been the best

father you could ever imagine. >> reporter: here's the back story, mark lester and michael jackson had been close friends since 1980, but in 1996, lester saysñr michael made a bizarre request. >>ñi michael jackson asked me ia private conversation whether i would be willing to donate sperm on his behalf. >> reporter: lester now claims he did it, donated the sperm at a london clinic. he says michael wanted kids but was anxious about sex and needed his help. lester came forward about all of it just weeks ago, and the british tabloids had had a field day. >> i believe michael's children, i would assume that the one that looks most like me is paris. >> reporter: lester didn't think twice about it until after michael's death. people kept saying your daughter, hariette, on the left, looks a lot like paris jackson, she's on the right but mark leaster is not the only one with a possible paternity connection. jackson's dermatologist, dr. arnie klein, told a judge recently he has a unique interest in jackson's kids but

wouldn't elaborate, and there were women claiming motherhood. >> i'm declaring myself as the sole biological mother of all three jackson children. >> reporter: that's claire cruz, just minutes earlier, yet another woman, billie jean jackson told the judge, i'm the mother. it's a circus. >> we know that the kids are consuming some of this stuff in the media. we have found out that the kids do watch telesion they do know what's going on, and this can't be healthy for them. >> we should mention, mark lester's ex-wife says his claims are not credible, that he cannot be the biological father, because simply the timing doesn't add up, and katherine jackson's lawyer now tells nbc news the newfound efforts appear to be self-serving, lack legal standing and do not serve the best interests of the children. as of now, at least, in the eyes of the court here in california, michael jackson was the father, debbie rowe is the mother, mostly, matt, because they were married at the time these children came into their lives. >> jeff roen, thank you very

much. mark lester is now joining us exclusively, mark, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so those words, self-serving, no legal standing, not in the best interests of the children, that's what the lawyer for katherine jackson says about the possibility, your claim that you're possibly paris's father. how do you respond to that? >> well i would make absolutely no claim on paris or any of the kids. it's just something that happened. it's a possibility that one or all very unlikely all but one of those kids may be mine. >> are you being coy with me here, do you know definitively whether you are paris jacksos father? >> no. >> no idea? >> no idea. and even if i was, it would make absolutely no difference to the status quo of the family anyway. >> because it would make no difference to the status quo of the family why are you talking about it? why did you decide you wanted to speak about it? >> the story was going to go out in the uk, and it was going to

break, i had the option of sitting back and letting it go without my input into it, and i just made a decision that it would be better for me to come forward and state my case, rather than it could be going on behind my back without my approval. >> and your family, you've got four children of your own. >> i have, and for them to hear that without me priming them would have been to say, you know, it would have been surprising. >> let's go back to that conversation that you had with michael jackson many years ago, and that's not just something that comes up, it's not like hey, mark, les go batch a ball game and by the way, would you donate some sperm. put it in context for me. >> we had conversations on the telephone, and michael was very shy when it came to women, and he confided in me that he had found it very dficult to actually do the sexual act.

he knew i had three, at the time, three lovely girls, and so i just jokingly said, well, look, michael, if you don't want to do t maybe i'll do it for you >> that's a different thing because if he's uncomfortable with the act of having sex wh a woman he could still use his own sperm to become the biological faerpt of the child. >> exactly. >> why did he need your sperm? >> exactly. that i don't know, because whether he wanted to increase the chances of the artificial insemination. >> did he say he had some concerns about his own viability as a father? >> no, not really. he just said he was very, very nervous, and he didn't feel that he was up to actually going through the act. >> so when you did donate sperm, though, mark, did you say to him, and by the way, if you decide to use this, this actually is something you decide to move forward with, i think i deserve the right to know?

>> no. when i gave it, i made a decision, that was it. i had given something as a gift, and i didn't want anything in return for it. that was it. end of story. >> you were married at the time. >> i was. >> that this happened. did you discuss this with your wife? any spouse would want to know it's possible their husband becomes a biological father of another child. >> correct, well my wife at the time we were having a lot of issues, and we were, although we were living together, we were living kind of almost separate lives within the household. she certainly, whatever i did, she would do the opposite. she was a difficult lady, and she didn't like the michael jackson thing, me being with michael, she didn't like the idea of, of anything, of actually me and my kids enjoying ourselves. it seemed to be alien to her, which is very sad.

so of course, this was completely confidential. nobody knew until a couple of weeks ago. >> she has since done an interview, as you know, with one of the london tabloids. >> she has but that was expected. >> let me see if you can comment on what she said. she says first of all that the story of sperm donation doesn't work in timing or in truth, and that even you have exaggerated your relationship, the depth of your friendship with michael jackson. how do you answer that? >> well, that's what she would be bound to say. i think it's probably out of the fact that she wasn't informed that she feels that she was left out of it in some way. >> so paris jackson was born 11 years ago. >> um-hum. >> you are the god father of michael's children, he's the god father of your children. as you spent time with the jackson children and you started to see paris grow up, looking at a picture right now, here you are on one side of the screen, here's paris jackson on the other. did you ever look and say wait a

second, i think there's a striking similarity, if you do believe there is one? >> no. i mean michael, paris is michael's daughter. michael, whether or not he's the biological father, is irrelevant. >> but is it relevant, are you possibly the biological father when you look at the split screen as our viewers are looking at it, do you think there's a resemblance? >> she's absolutely beautiful and i would be honored if that came from me. i mean she's a beautiful child, a highly intelligent kid, and as all of jackson's kids are. >> one of your children, one of your daughters, hariette, is in our studio. she's 15. >> um-hum. >> she's fine with this. i want to make sure people don't think i'm catching her off guar i wonder if we can put a split screen up to see if there's a resemblance between hariette, again, 15, and paris, who is 11. what do you think when you see that? >> it's very difficult to see your own kids because you always see them in a different way. it's like having a tape recording of your own voice t

never sounds the same. they both got relatively high cheek bones. i mean, there are similarities. >> but it's not an oh, gosh, moment, where you go, wow! of course. >> no, i think olivia, my younger daughter actually looks more like paris but everyone seems to have picked up on the fact that hariette has this resemblance, but i don't know. >> you've said that you'd be willing to take a paternity test. is that true? >> yeah, i don't think it's necessary but you know, i must stress, though, those kids are michael jackson's children. they're with their family, they're in the place where they should be. if i was called upon to do it, if there was any -- >> but you don't want it to happen. it's not something you would push for? >> i really -- >> to awer some question in your own mind? >> i'm the god father to those kids. i just really, all i want to do is to remain in contact, my

family and michael's children. >> have you been in contact with them since michael died? >> sadly, not. >> why is that? >> i don't know. i guess within the jackson family, there's a lot of upheaval. this is very sudden and sad event, and i mean, michael hasn't even been buried yet. i'm hoping that, you know, when things settle down and in a couple of months maybe, that we'll be able to establish some sort of telephone contact, and who knows, maybe we'll pop over to los angeles, and i would dearly love those children to come and visit us in england. they've been to my house. >> so is your message to the jackson family, you want to continue a relationship and a friendship. you're not looking for a say in their upbringing or any monetary gain from any of this? >> no, no, not at all. i'm their god father. you know, i am the children's godfather, and i really just want -- my kids get along so

well with michael's children, and you know, i just want to remain, you know, as friends, and to have that contact. maybe come see them once a year, who knows. i'm not saying that we phone every day, but you know, just to have some form of contact would be nice. >> mark lester, mark, thanks for being here, appreciate it. >> my pleasure. let's head out and get a check of the weather from al. >> thanks, matt, a little close here, warm and humid but all of these folks feel cool because they'll have a good view of natasha bedingfield. what time did you get here? >> like 5:00. >> cool, very nice. good, good, enjoy the concert, just coming up. let's check your weather and see what's happening. for today, weekend ahead, heavy rain in the northeast. sizzling highs into the plains and southwest and then on sunday, sunday! more rain and thunderstorms in the northeast, we've g warm weather in the south, sizzling

good morning. certainly a warm and muggy morning around our region as well. it's the warmest and most humid morning this summer. on radar we have showers in the panhandle of west virgiand a in western maryland. temperatures in the upper 70s from the blue ridge to the atlantic beaches. in the mountains near 70. afternoon highs climbing to the low 90s. partly sunny this afternoon, and a likelihood of afternoon and evening thundershowers. isolated thunderstorms could back to matt. that's your latest weather. matt? >> thank you very much. co mingexp ut n the ycoounge wing walker in the world, we'll meet tt 8-ye-old dare devil right after this. vo: why spend $5 per person at the drive-thru,

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hospital with non-life threatening injuries. there is no word on the identification of the pedestrian. we'll take a break and come back with weather and traffic.c.

it's a steamy summer morning. temperatures in the upper 70s to ne

near 80. some brief heavy downpour, there is a slight risk of storms producing damaging winds 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. more showers likely tomorrow and tomorrow night. >> take a live look here, and the approach to the wilson bridge with the travel lanes open on the map through northeast, very quiet morning, kennel worth and new york avenue, 66 is okay. headed downtown, heavy but steady to the 14th street bridge. >> thank you. tonight at 5:00 imagine wearing the same outfit for a month straight. one woman did it. find out how she did it.

note feel the rain on your skin ♪ ♪ no one else can feel it for you ♪ 8:00 friday morning, august 23rd, 2009, although if you listen to the sounds coming from our crowds -- >> that's very sweet of you. >> this say big crowd here. okay, could we just say it? it is really sticky here. >> we're all stuck together. >> did you see the window leading to the studio out here, fogging up, it is so hot and steamy out here that we've got -- >> like a shower. >> it really is. >> this is a two-shower day i think. >> that's right. i better get started.

>> we got natasha bedingfield performing in actually a couple of minutes, in about a half an hour, and reminder, while we have a great show this friday, next friday, miley cyrus in concert. >> miley cyrus next friday. >> meanwhile, matt lauer along with ann curry, meredith is taking time off. al roker is here as well. coming up, tell me more about this shot that can make you look younger? >> called sculptra, an an try wrinkle treatment and there is a catch, because unlike botox, it can last up to four years. you want to make sure they do it right. there are some side effects, but we're told they're minor. we'll get to the bottom of all of this coming up. >> i always like the side effects. >> irritation and things. >> oh, yeah, you're not wrinkly but you're scratching like crazy. anyway, from supplies to computers to lunches, we're going to show you how to cut down on the cost of sending the

kids back to school. >> you have never looked better. can i say, look at you. >> look at me. >> doesn't he look fantastic? >> 55 appeals to him. >> it does. hoda is standing by at the news desk with the headlines. >> good morning guys, good morning, everybody. today the world health organization is warning there will soon be an explosion in swine flu cases. the agency says most countries may she swine flu cases double every three to four days for several months. meantime, u.s. health officials are recommending that college students be vaccinated for h1n1, this is one of a number of recommendations being spread on college campuses via facebook and twitter. president obama is hoping to regain momentum on health care reform, speaking to supporters at the democratic national committee headquarters thursday. the president tried to counter what he calls misinformation about his plan, including the creation of what critics label death panels. the government is putting the brakes on the cash for clunkers program. the enormously popular car rebate program will end on monday night.

so far, more than 450,000 vehicles have been sold, generating aboutñr $2 billion i rebates. the only suspect convicted in the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 was welcomed home last night to libyaçó with a hu reception. thousands turned out for the arrival of abdul baset ali al megrahi, after he was reased al megrahi was granted añi because he's dying from cancer. two more infant deaths are prompting the consumer products safety commissionish to u another warnira=uñbassinets made by simplicity, urging parents to stop using the close-sleeper bedside sleeper bassinets because four infants have gotten strangled or suffocated. the original recall was issued a year ago. hurricane bill is bringing dangerous riptides along the eastern u.s. people in bermuda are preparing for heavy rain, tropical storm

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look. i love that face. what a cutie! let's check your weather, see what's going on, and she's still crying oveer the. you can see our picture of the day, milwaukee, today tmj, showers and cool, latest on bill, 385 miles south of bermuda, 820 miles southeast of cape hatteras, winds down to 115 miles per hour so it has been weakening and you can see the path of the storm brings it early saturday between bermuda and cape hatteras and of course we have to worry about dangerous rip currents, strong winds, and of course, we're also going to have to worry about dangerous surf so please, up and down the eastern seaboard, stay out of the water. how is she doing? is she still crying? i think she's still crying. she's still crying, all right,?? good morning. here we have the high humidity in place on this friday morning. temperatures around the region near 80 degree, onadar a few showers, panhandle of west virginia and western maryland heading to the north and east.

we have temperatures right around 80 now and high humidity in place. highs low 90s. and there's a likelihood of afternoon and evening thundershowers. there is a small chance of isolated strong storms between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. some could produce damaging winds today. showers and thundershowers likely tomorrow. >> mr. lauer? >> you got the magic touch. lots of our favorite pho photojournalists that can mean only one thing, another good concert. natasha bedingfield in concert in our 8:30 half-hour. come up, is it better than botox? a new shot to remove your wrinkles. first these messages. who are finding more ways ts to spread their dollar further. - to bolder color in less time. - ♪ are you feeling it?

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back now at 8:10 this morning on "today's health" a new fda-approved anti-wrinkle treatment called sculptra. here's nbc's michelle kosinski. >> reporter: a few needles to the face, several hundred dollars a session, and you have the latest break-through that doesn'freeze time, it helps you grow some of itñi back. >> lines here were very, very deep and that was the only product that helped me

considerably. >> reporter: sculptra, similar to dissolvable stitches was first approved for aids patients who lose a lot of facial fat. now given the a-okay for looks. it makes your body produce more of its own collagen where injected and the results last years, not months. >> these lines right there, the ones your makeup sticks in and says hello, i'm a big wrinkle, that's what doctors say thisñiñ stuff is good for and also older, crepey skin, and hollow cheeks. this is a before, and after. dr. leslie bowman did the years of clinical trials for the manufacturer at the university of miami's cosmetic research institute. >> i've seen it last three years and the nice thing is at the end of three years they don't need three or four more treatments, usually one will be enough but you absolutely can make someone's face look ten years younger. >> reporter: husband and wife omar and vivian fernandez took parts in the trial and feel five years older they look better. >> this part tends to droop a

little and if you can help it, just like if you put on powder, to cover something or blush to give yourself a little bit color, i think that's the same thing. so just to make yourself look better. >> reporter: the downside? expensive. and you don't see results right away. you get one treatment a month at around $800, and after three, you start to see your old friend collagen coming back. >> when we get together with friends, they say, what are you doing? you look -- >> reporter: here's a big caution. if you don't go to a doctor who knows what they're doing, you could get big, hard lumps that can only be removed with surgery. >> i had a patient who was treated in atlanta by another doctor who came inñr and she ha huge bumps all under her eyes that you could see, and they felt hard as a rock. >> reporter: not pretty. done right, the newest things to put back a few of those passing years. for "today," michelle kosinski, nbc news, miami. >> dr. raj, assistant professor

at the nyu school of medicine and medical editor of" health" magazine. good morning. >> good morning. >> that was good and bad news, two to four years, terrific, not botox but on the other hand, what about these lumps? what are the side effects of this thing? >> for general people it's really very minimal. you get a little tenderness, redness or swelling around the area of injection. >> for a long time? >> usually lasts a few days, for the most two weeks. in rare cases you go l get nodules or painful bumps under the skin if you're prone to keloid you should stay away from this because it could develop scars. >> this say brand new injection. they're not going to be that many people experienced at it. >> you have to get special training for it. it has been used in europe since 1999. it's been used longer in this country for aids patients so someone who has been properly trained is a good idea. >> we've gone through the side effects. what are the pluses? >> the plupss are many.

one is that it doesn't work right away which is a good thing because you have a more gradual, natural result, not like you walk in one day to work and everyone says, whoa, what happened to you? it's more subtle. >> you can move yr eyebrows if you're angry or sad. you don't have to worry about the frozen effect. >> it's not freezing your muscles which is nice, you have some facial expression a it makes your body produce more collagen, and again that's why it's long lasting, more than a few months. the fillers get resorbed by your body but this has your own body producing more, lasting up to two to three years. >> with all due respect to the fda because they have a big, big, big, job. we know some things have been approved by the fda and only later found out to not be good for us, there's a real risk and things have been pulled back. how long do we need to wait before we can feel this is fully vetted? >> it's been around for a long time in europe. we trust our own fda more than european countries. i think you should wait a few years if you're nerve busous ab

it. a lot of people are using this off label for awhile and it does seem to work. it's buyer beware. depends how important it is to you to get the wrinkles out of the way. >> this is probably a good way, a time to remind people, there are other ways not to have as much aging. >> sure. >> healthy ways, things that don't require this kind of stuff. >> i think prevention is the best thing to do, and first of all, sun damage is number one. stay out of the sun, especially your eyes, you get a lot of wrinkles around your eye, wear the sunglasses, avoid squinting, exercise, not smoking, these are things that will help you prevent wrinkles so you don't have to use this later on. >> one of the great beautifiers, try to find happiness. >> absolutely. >> as you obviously. dr. raj, thank you so much this morning. coming up next, how toe sav on supplies to computers, as we send our children back to school, after this. (miley cyrus) introducing miley cyrus & max azria.

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we have kim clark, "u.s. news" with all kinds of money saving information. good to see. >> thanks for having me. >> you have college bound students, sell the car. >> right, a lot of students say they need a car to get to a job but the colleges point out if they didn't have the car census they wouldn't nee to study so hard. you save your insurance, campus park something expensive. >> gas. >> maintenance. the savings are $6,000 a year. >> living on campus in a dorm room, look for a triple occupancy room. >> one of the reasons college has gotten so expensive, dorms are a lot nicer. you see suites and single rooms. if you're willing to lower your standard of living a little bit and maybe live in a double, triple or quadruple room you can get big discounts. >> how can you save money on the college meal plan? >> you have to buy the right meal plan. if you're going home every weekend you don't need the 20-meal plan. buy the 14-meal plan and be disciplined about snacking. you order that late night pizza,

it's $10 or $20 a night. so that really adds up. if you can eat your meals in the calf tieria, you can save money and not gain the freshman 15. >> finally, find a cheaper way to earn credits. >> people don't realize there are two tests out there widely recognized by colleges and will give you credit and these tests cost less than $100. one is called click and other dsst. you take four, five, english, sociology and save a semester's worth of tuition. >> kim clark, thank you very much. >> you bet. let's check in with hoda. >> all right, matt, thanks so much. amy, knows how to soup up the bargain basement prices from "all you" magazine. time for supply shopping. >> we're in the heat of it. as the months progress we get deeper discounts. the thing is to know when the sales start, some start midweek and some on the weekend. >> speaking of sales, realize this area right here that amy has brought us, all of this, 95

cents. from how? >> from office depot and stores like that, having weekly back-to-school sales, 95 cents. four of these items are free, nothing is over 25 cents. it's a great deal. this sale starts sunday. >> how do you get free items? >> they're offering these folders, walk in, put them into your basket and you can get it. >> if you waited until the first day of school or after, do you think you'd find better deals than we're seeing? >> yes more high-tech items. you can wait and get a better deal. >> if you go to places you don't expect to find school supplies like a toys "r" us. >> get a backpack for $12.95 or higher you get a free lunch kit up to a value of ten bucks. 'a great deal. we have lots of styles to choose from. >> a lot of people like to buy in bulk at one of the big stores, lots of tebooks. is that a good idea? >> great idea if you want to go in with another family and split a real of paper. walmart these notebooks are 15 cents, note cards for 44 cents, target, folders for $1, pencil

cases for $1. this is a lap desk for a little bit over $12. a lamp for $8 from target and a gorgeous japanese anime bag kids are going crazy for, y you can have style and savings and school hand in hand. >> amy, terrific bargains. thank you so much. let's go upstairs to miss ann curry in the kitchen. >> i'm with sunny anderson from "cooking for real." making a shoe string on a budget. >> graduate your kids from pb&j and mayo and mustard sandwiches and wrap it in a healthy way. bread to me in the bread box doesn't last very long. if you don't have enough kids to have sandwiches you're wasting bread. >> this is going to last longer. >> yes, put the tortillas in the refrigerator and lasts longer. wheat is better. i have dl hummus and spread that on with lettuce,

cranberries and roll it up. the great thing about the dill hummus, it's great to make, canned goods and canned beans, olive oil, fresh dill and it's not a shopping trip. >> stick it in the blender and you chop them up like this, you do that because i might hurt myself and you put them in, this is interesting. she puts them in these pre -- you bought something in this and wash it up and then you put your kids' lunches? >> it's a great second use for it. if we like packaging as adults your kids will love the packaging as well. let them have it in a fun little lunch. >> as you point out it's green. >> it's green and makes you feel good about your carbon footprint. you have cute rolls there. >> let's move on. you have this item here, which is basically what, a turkeyburger? >> these are my tricolor meatloaf peppers and thereat thing about this is it's packed with vegetables and wrapped with vegetables. you make this the night before. the morning of, you cut out a little circle of bread and it's good to go. >> we're out of time but i want

to quickly mention she's suggesting we freeze fruit, put them in a baggy and by the time they get to school it will be perfect. thanks so much this morning. >> thank you, ann. computers have been a back-to-school must but al, the price can add up quickly. >> sure can, but doesn't have to. we have a technology expert and dean of student affairs at columbia university's journalism school. shireen good to see you. >> good to be here. >> looking for a computer for your kid there are deals. >> you need to know what you want to do with the computer and you want to sit down and talk with your kid to see what they would like to do with it. there's high-end gaming or whether they should be looking for something that's portae and light. >> are there certain things you can do to reduce the cost of that? >> the first thing is that when you go into the store, is to have your child be comfortle with the computer so they know this model may be the right one for them and really look at what kind of options they might be on various kinds of discounts especially printer discounts and software discounts. >> these netbooks good deal?

>> this is the del mini our time right now is 8:26. 79 degrees here in the nation's capital. a hot steamy summer day headed our way. we'll get the forecast coming up on this friday, the 21st day of august. i'm joe krebs. in the news today, we're following two stories, fairfax county police are investigating a deadly pedestrian accident that happened a little more than an hour ago on new braddock road in centreville. the driver stayed at the scene of the accident. no word on the identity of the victim. a husband and w s 50 50s he bee prince william inin wilam ht nstn ireieth h w la o00fgeie sl court inie dumfries. lice belie it's a case of muer/suicide. we'll come back and look at our weather and check out the rush hour.

it is a warm and summer morning. temperatures now are near 80 degrees from the shenandoah valley to the atlantic beaches. high today reaching low 90s, and a likelihood of afternoon and evening thundershowers. there is a slight risk of an isolated thunderstorm this afternoon could produce damaging wind. and tomorrow may be more. how's the traffic, jerry? >> problem on the capital beltway. it's the inner loop of the beltway at the exit for 66, accident right lane is blocked. police are on the scene with a bit of a delay. south of town we're okay at the wilson bridge, broken down vehicle outer loop of new hampshire moved to the shoulder.

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♪ feel the rain on your skin ♪ no one else can feel it for you ♪ 8:30 on a friday morning, the 21st day of august 2009. we have a huge crowd gathered on this plaza friday morning, standing side by side and if they are human, they are spritzing, because it is warm and humid on the plaza. we thank them for sticking it out and sticking it out for a good reason because in a couple of minutes, we've got natasha bedingfield performing live in concert on that stage right

behind us. >> we were all saying how lucky are we? because she really had everyone feeling so good. right, everybody? [ cheering ] >> i'm matt lauer along with ann curry, while meredith is taking some time off. mr. roker and miss kotb as well. you're going to do cooking >> mark is great to have around. i don't think i've eaten anything prepared by him i didn't like. he's going to teach us how to make a picnic and keep it simple. >> simple, simple. >> he can hear us. good ideas from mark. not three, not seven, not four, five facts you need to keep your skin looking and feeling younger. >> all right. >> we're also going to talk to mark lester, a very good friend and godfather of michael jackson's three children and the question is, could he be the biological father of paris hilton? matt, you'll talk to him about that. >> we'll hear more from mr. lester. first let's hear more from

mr. roker about this steamy weather. >> let's see what we've got for saturday, heavy rain in the northeast, mild conditions in the pacific northwest, record highs in the central plains, and then sunday, sunday! more rain in new england in the northeast, sizzling >>good morning. here we've got a sultry summer morning with a high humidity in place. temperatures around the region near 80 degree, on radar a few showers, panhandle of west virginia and western maryland, these are passing to the north and east. we've got sunshine out near 80 in washington and from the blue ridge to the bay the high humidity in place. high today the low 90s. there's a likelihood of afternoon and evening thundershowers. a small chance of isolated storms this afternoon. could have showers and thundershowers again tomorrow. and for your latest weather, keep track of hurricane bill, check out the weather channel

24/7 or online at weather tot com. >> important to keep track for our friends along the east coast. when we come back, mark bitman will jazz up your next meal with ann and aer that, natasha bedingfield live in concert. buth

we're back at 8:35, how to cook everything today, picnic recipes, sure sandwiches will do, why not add some wild things in your outdoor meal. we have mark bittman, "kitchen express" 404 inspired seasonal dishes you can make in 20 minutes." mark is appropriately dressed in shorts for this segment. you're going to do a picnic with a fancy name, panzanella.

what the heck is that? >> bread salad. i like to season liberally so we're going to do chopped toe day mows and add capers, olives, ancho anchovies, whatever you like. >> we're putting capers on top of that. >> i like capers. when you say free people are not always free because they feel insecure. what is your best advice? >> taste, that's my best advice. >> we have anchovies. i like them, not too much. you're going to like them now. we want a little more garlic. >> oil and vinegar. >> olive oil is fantastic. i baked with olive oil in a uá fantastic. >> yes. and we'll use some shaved pecarina. this is really flexible, any cheese you want, anyxd seasonin you want, and steal bread if you have it. >> what you're doing with the steal bread, you want to make the salad prettyçó tasty becaus the bread is going to soak up. >> yes, definitely. i was going to say that. some salt and pepper. >> did that.

salt. i did the pepper. >> some torn basil. >> we mix that up. >> you're doing very well. >> and thene get the torn basil, mix that up like this and put a little plastic. that's it. >> a little tupperware. >> how much ahead of time do we have to do this? >> you don't have to do it ahead of time, you don't have to do it ahead of time at all but you can do it a few hours. >> if you do it a whole day the bread will get soggy. beautiful little salad, and it's done. panzanella is an idea, now we have some beets. >> you're really moving it along. >> i'm on a roll. you're on a ro. >> some shredded shallots. these are fresh beets, raw, shredded in the food processor. very crunchy, taste them, great. >> they're perfect. why cook them? they're hard to cook. >> they're crunchy, sweet, they're delicious. >> olive oil. >> a little olive oil, and this

time sherry. >> why sherry? >> i like the combination, it's a strong vinegar on the beets, they're sweet so it's a nice combo. >> you've got some pita breads here. >> i also have some little herbs. >> and a little bit of parsley. happening. >> and some pita chips, you could have crackers, bread, tortilla chips. >> look at how pretty the green looks on the beets. put that in. >> do we have another ten seconds? >> we have, we have, because we want to make it perfect. so i'm going to put this in here and what would i do with this? use this to dip? >> or just put them on, you know, spread them on top or serve them on the side. >> you could crunch them in, good to eat with the salad. >> another bread salad. >> done. how did it come out? >> fabulous. >> fabulous. okay, then i'm having a bite, too. okay, now -- >> really good. >> what are we making for dessert? >> this is like beyond simple. this is store bought pound cake, mascarpone cheese, you could use

whipped cream. spread that with a little bit of that and here we don't want to do it in advance, this is a hrubarb strawberry jam so you make the little sandwiches, do it this way, make these little sandwiches, put them in here and later on top them with that or spread some jam on the inside. >> so the cheese is something i buy out of the store, the pound cake out of the store and something out of a jar to top it on top. >> or if you have a little time you cook some strawberries and rhubarb together with sugar and get this. >> fantastic. basically what you're saying is switch it up, you don't have to make the potato salad or baked chicken. surprise your family. >> and look at the colors we have here. look how pretty this is, the beets, as you said, raw and really sharp and delicious, but look how gorgeous this is, the bread salad, nice stuff. >> mark bittman, making it eelsy as he always does, thank you so much. for more recipes that are easy check out our website at

todayshow.com so we get more of mark's wisdom. coming up next, in nah ta shah bedingfield live in concert. fi

the toyota concert series is brought to you by the third generation prius, harmony between man, nature and machine. >> this next young lady recently got married, working on a brand new album and taking over our concert stage. ladies and gentlemen, miss natasha bedingfield. ♪ ♪ oh, yeah, yeah ♪ i got a pocket full, a pocket

full of sunshine ♪ ♪ oh, do what you want but you're never going to break me ♪ ♪ stick and stones are never going to shake me, oh ♪ ♪ i got a pocket ul, a pocket full of sunshine, oh, oh ♪ ♪ do anything you want you can't throw me down ♪ ♪ take me away, a secret place, a sweet escape, take me away ♪ ♪ take me away to better days, take me away, a hiding place ♪ ♪ i got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine ♪ ♪ i got a love and i know that it's all mine ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh, y're mine, yeah ♪ ♪ do what you want but you're never gonna break me ♪

♪ sticks and stones are never gonna shake me no ♪ ♪ you can't control me, no, no ♪ take me away, a secret place, a sweet escape, take me away ♪ ♪ take me away to better days, take me away, a hiding place ♪ ♪ there's a place that i go that nobody knows where the rivers flow, and i call it home ♪ ♪ and there's no more lies in the darkness there's light ♪ ♪ and nobody cries, there's only butterflies ♪ ♪ take me away, a secret place, a sweet escape, take me away ♪ ♪ take me away to betterdays, take me away, take me away ♪

♪ a secret place, a sweet escape, takee away ♪ ♪ to better days, takeñi me awa a hiding place, oh, take me away ♪ >> natasha bedingfield, thank you. more music in a moment from her but first this is "today" on nbc.ñi

grammy nominated singer and song ware natasha bedingfield is hard at work on a brand new album, spending a lot of studi lucky for us she stepped on to our hot, steamy concert stage. natasha, welcome back. good to have you here. >> thank you, good to be here. >> since the last time we got to hang out, you've gotten married. congratulations. >> i did. i did. >> back in may, right? >> actually in april. >> in april. are you still married? >> yes. >> it's the entertainment industry, i don't know. how is it treating you and changing your music? because you are recording right now. >> i'm writing my next album, it's nice because i'm in that kind of phase that the honeymoon

phase, and it's kind of inspiring the music, but the album is not going to be about getting married. >> some of the songs on the last two albums were being single and independent. >> yes. >> clearly subject matter has changed a little bit. >> a little bit. i think there still should be some independent stuff because i think that part, a key to a good relationship is being interdependent and having confidence in yourself, that stuff, because you know, there's a lot of reasons to feel insecure >> we have a certain amount of nostalgia with you, because you came here when you were just beginning, and you performed here on the plaza, and it's been a real whirlwind over the last several years for you. have you been able to put it in perspective? >> yes, i mean, it really goes up and down and you have the high moments and then it goes quiet when you are writing. i feel like you guys have been there from the start. >> do you miss the attention when you're in there in the studio and no one's saying,

well, let's play her song right now? is that a tough time for you? >> no, i kind of like it. it's like, i kind of go into my little studio and hide away and write and probably by the end of the year we'll have the next album, and i just, i'm trying to get inspired as i can, listening to other music, and it's just a lot of fun, just kind of bring that creativity to the music. >> you recorded a song done by madonna "ray of light." why that song and what is it that made you say i'd like to do that? >> madonna is a really good song writer and every person i've talked to that worked with her, she's a great performer but her songs are amazing and "ray of light" is quite fun to sing as a singer. so i've been singing it on my show, i wanted to bring it here and sing it here. >> we'll get to hear that now? >> um-hum. >> great to have you back. congratulations on your marriage. ladies and gentlemen, natasha bedingfield.

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♪ she's got herself a universe, she's got herself a universe ♪ ♪ she's got herself a universe ♪ like i just got home, like i just got home ♪ >> one more song from natasha a little later on but first these messages, your local news and weather.

8:55 is our time right now. 80 degree, some clouds above us and a blue sky over the nation's capital. warm and muggy, though, on this friday, this 21st day of august. ebjoodm rning.s.kr

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it's been the warmest morning of the summer so far. temperatures are now beginning to climb into the 80s, we'll hit the low 90s later on and a front approaching from the west combined with all of the humidity likely triggering afternoon thundershowers into this evening. there is a slight risk of

isolated storms could produce damaging winds. showers and thundershowers likely tomorrow. how's traffic? >> we'll head over and take a look on the inner loop at i-66, the earlier accident moved out of the roadway, activity continues in the far right shoulder. and south of town, wilson bridge, okay, out to the eastern shore, route 50 eastbound at the bay bridge no issues reported. >> thanks very much. tonight, imagine wearing the same outfit for a month straight. one woman did it. how she pulled it off.

♪ we're back now more of "today" on a friday morning, the 21st day of august, 2009. you're looking at a happy crowd enjoying the afterglow of a great concert, maybe that's just per separation. >> i was going to say. >> natasha bedingfield putting on a great show on the plaza. if you missed it, more music to come from the sultry songstress. >> she looks sultry now. >> matt lauer along with ann curry and al roker, and coming up in this half hour we're going to talk to mark lester. remember him, the good friend and godfather of michael jackson's children, three children and now he says there's a possibility he could actually

turn out to be the biological father of that lady right there, paris jackson. there's mark on the right, and paris on the left, is there a similarity? we'll let you decide, as we talk to mark in this half hour. >> on a lighter note, you guys spend a lot of money on facial creams to make sure you stay beautiful and probably asked yourself, am i really putting my money in a place where it really needs toñi go? in other words, do these things really work? a medical doctor willñr come on the show in the next half hour and ta about what really works, what doesn't work, for example things that make your eye lashes grow longer. >> yes. >> do they work? we'll find moout more coming up. you smell like tortilla chips. tortilla chips. house hunting, we'll tell you anything from $200,000 to $500,000, what it will get you from hawaii to virginia. >> you know how we track the adoptions of the dogs? >> yes. >> do we track the sale of the

homes? >> we should. >> can we find out, if people take advantage of the deals because they're great. get on that! >> i'm going right now! >> okay. >> let's get a check of the headlines of the day from hoda kotb filling in at the news desk. >> this will be the last weekend for car shoppers to take advantage of the cash for clunkers rebate offer. the federal program ends monday night because it used up so much of the $3 billion in funding in a month. the world health organization is warning today of a major surge in swine flu cases over the next few months. thursday health officials urged college students to get vaccinated in the fall and advised them to stay out of classrooms if they have flu-like symptoms or fever. preliminary results of afghanistan's presidential election could come as early as tomorrow but final results are not expected for two more weeks. the freed lockerbie bomber is back home in libya today, greeted last night to a hero's welcome. abdul baset ali al megrahi was released by scottish authorities

thursday because he's been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. a spokesman for donald rumsfeld is calling a claim by former homeland security tom ridge nonsense. in a new book ridge says he felt fo pressure to raise the nation's terror threat level days before the 2004 presidential election. the level was not raised. an unruly passenger aboard a southwest airlines flight was arrested thursday after police say during the flight he exposed himself to his seat mate, punched her, and then fought with other passengers and crew before disrobing entirely. the flight out of oakland, california, was forced to return to the airport. and they are ready for their close-s. the public got its first look at four lion cubs at the virginia zoo in norfolk, thursday. cuddly and cute but the largest just started eating raw meat for lunch. they're lions, after all >> it is three minutes past the hour. let's go back outside to ann curry >> hoda kotb, good on.

somebody else doing a good job besides this little girl waving is alroke >> we got all of tsehese natash bedingfield fans over here. let's show you what's going on out in the atlantic, latest on bill and you can see, 385 miles south of bermuda, 820 miles southeast of cape hatteras, downgraded to about 115 miles per hour, barely a capital goir 3, moving northwest at 17, path of the storm will bring it early saturday between bermuda and the eastern united states, good news, doesn't make landfall in bermuda, picking up two to four inches of rain for the eastern u.s., what we've got to watch for, dangerous rip currents, large swells. bermuda may see waves as muchs ee 40 ftnglo a the south coast, d anthloen on sunday, bermuda's waves die down but strong waves start to fire up as you get along new england. rip currents the big problems as the waves come in, the strong waves, the water takes it out, because of course, it's got to go somewhere, and as it does it creates these really dangerous rip currents, only way if you get caught in the rip current, get out of it, swim;;;;

good morning. we have a warm and muggy summer morning under way. temperatures are now climbing into the 80s, on radar getting showers and maybe a little thunder, too, in allegheny, garrett county and coming into the western part of the eastern panhandle of west virginia. elsewhere we don't have precipitation, but we've got a steamy summer morning under way. it's 82 in washington, highs 90. low 90s or so. the likelihood of afternoon and evening thundershowers. a small chance isolated look i've trapped ann curry between jimmy murragn. can't get away. >> i like to hang with people. >> let's go back in to matt. >> thank you very much and ann as well. mark lester is a chiropractor outside of london, he's married with four children. he also happens to be a good friend to michael jackson or was and he is the godfather to michael jackson's three children. now, he's claiming he could b

the biological father of paris jackson. i got a chance to sit down with mark earlier this morning and i asked him how he responds to katherine jackson's lawyers claims that lester's claims are self-serving with no legal standing. >> well, i would make absolutely no claim on paris or any of the kids. it's just something that happened. it's a possibility that one or all, very unlikely all, but one of those kids may be mine. >> are you being coy with me here? do you know definitively whether youreen paris jackson's father? >> no. >>o idea? >> no idea. and even if i was, it would make absolutely no difference to the status quo of the family anyway. >> because it would make no difference to the status quo of the family or the status quo of the family, why are you talking about it? why did you decide you wanted to speak about it? >> the story was going to go out in the uk, and it was going to break. i had the option of sitting back

and letting it go without my input into it, and i just made a decision that it would be better for me to come forward and state my case, rather than it could be going on behind my back without my approval. >> and your family, of a got four children of your own. >> i have, and for them to hear that without me priming them would have been to say, you know, would have been surprising. >> let's go back to that conversation that you had with michael jackson many years ago, and that's not just something that comes up, it's not like hey, mark, let's go watch a ball game and by the way, would you donate some sperm. put it in context for me. >> we had conversations on the telephone, and michael was very shy when it came to women, and he confided in me that he had found it very difficult to actually do the sexual act.

he knew i had three, at the time three lovely girls, and so i just jokingly said, well, look michael, if you don't want to do t maybe i'll do it for you. >> that's a very different thing. if he's uncomfortable with the act of having sex with a woman, he could still use his own sperm. >> exactly. >> to become the biological father of the child. >> exactly. >>why use your sperm? >> that i don know, whether he wanted to increase the chances of the artificial insemination. >> did he say he had some concerns about his own viability as a father? >> no, not really. he just said he was very, very nervous, and he didn't feel that he was up to actually going through the act. >> so when you did donate sperm, though, mark, did you say to him, and by the way, if you decide to use this, if this actually is something you decide to move forward with, i think i deserve the right to know?

>> no, when i gave it, i made a decision and that was it, and i had given something as a gift, and i didn't want anything in return forit. that was it. end of story. >> so paris jackson was born 11 years ago. you were the godfather of michael's children, he's the godfather of your children, so as you spent time with the jackson children, and you started to see paris grow up, we're looking at a picture. here you are on one side of the screen, here's paris jackson on the other. did you ever look, say wait a second i think there's a striking similarity if you believe there is one? >> no. michael, par sis michael's daughter. michael, whether or not he's the irrelevant. >> is it relevant -- are you possibly the biological father, when you look at that split screen right there as our viewers are looking at it, do you think there's a resemblance? >> she'sñi absolutely beautiful and you know, i would be honored if that came from me.ñr i meanñi she's a beautiful ñu$i

she's axdñri highly intelligent and as all of jackson's kids are. >> one of your children, one of your daughters, hariette,çó is our studio, she's 15 and she's fine with this, i want to make sure that people don't think i'm catching her off guard. i wonder if we can put a split screen up to see if there's a resemblance between hariette, again, 15 and paris, who is 11. what do you think when you see that? >> it's very difficult to see your own kids because you always see them in a different way. it's like hearing a tape recording of your own voice, it never sounds the same. they both have relatively high cheek bones. i mean, there are similarities. >> but it's not an oh, gosh, moment, where you go, wow! of course! >> no, i think owe liveia, my younger daughter, looks more like paris, but everyone seems to have picked up on the fact that hariette has this resemblance, but i don't know.

>> you've said that you'd be willing to take a paternity test. is that true? >> yeah, i mean, if it was necessary but you know, i -- i must stress, though, those kids are michael jackson's children, you know. they're with their family. they're in the place where they should be. if i was called upon to do it, if there was any -- >> but you don't want it to happen. it's not something you would push for? >> i really -- >> to answer some question in your own minds. >> i'm the godfather to those kids. i really, all i want to do is to remain in contact, my family and michael's children to be -- >> have you been in contact with them since michael died? >> sadly, not. >> and why is that? >> i don't know. i guess within the jackson family, you know, there's a lot of upheaval. this is very sudden and sad event, and i mean, michael hasn't even been buried yet. i'm hoping that, you know, when things settle down, and in a

couple of months maybe, that we'll be able to establish some sort of telephone contact, and who knows? maybe we'll pop over to los angeles and -- i would dearly love those children to come and visit us in england. they've been to my house, and -- >> is your message to the jackson family, you just want to continue a relationship and a friendship. you're not looking for a say in their upbringing or any money, any metary gain from any of this? >> no, no, not at all. i just love -- i'm their dfather. i am the children's godfather, and i really just want -- my kids get along so well with theirs, with michael's children, and i just want to remain, you know, as friends, and to have that contact. maybe come see them once a year, who knows? i'm not saying that we phone every day, but you know, just to have some form o contact would be nice. >> again that was mark lester, , the doctor'smeco , the doctor' in. 'te's going to tell youheha it when it comes to beauty products but up next we'll take you inside some of the houses around the country

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it's an hisric 1920s bungalow. you should appreciate it's energy efficient, radiant floor heating and solar hot water and the gleaming beautifully refinished new floors. the kitchen has granite countertops and everything has been brought up-to-date so there's nothing left to be done. >> it's on a small lot, a lot of homes are on either side. ways to make it a little more private? >> that's an old neighborhood and the houses are back-to-back and the easiest way to make that private is you can't add more land but what you could do is put a little white picket fence to separate from the neighbors. >> the solar stuff on the top, is that a priority for people now? >> can i tell you the truth?çó it's expensive to put in. people love it when they do it but the new buyer is never willing to pay extra for it, for co ia >> columbia, missouri, in a good location, lots of students in this area, asking price $244,000. >> right in columnbyia, the ct of living is way beno the national average. they hardly have any

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>> it is a warm and steamy inmo. temperatures already now climbing into the low 80s, it's 82 degrees and the humidity remains high. later on today, temperatures climbing into the low 90s, likelihood of afternoon thundershowers. and maybe some isolated storms producing damaging winds, 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. thunderstorms possible tonight as well as on saturday, highs tomorrow the low 80s. could have dangerous surf at the atlantic beaches tomorrow. that's the way it looks right now. >> thank you, tom. and we'll take a look at traffic when we come back.

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♪ always going to be another mountain ♪ ♪ i'm always going to make it move ♪ ♪ always going to be an uphill battle, sometimes i'm going to have to lose ♪ ♪ 16-year-old sensation miley cyrus stormed into the spotlight a few years ago as hannah montana, not looking back. now we're looking forward to her being live on the plaza to close out our summer concert series next friday on "today." meantime, we have the lovely and talented natasha bedingfield. do you think you can use cream to get rid of stretch marks or can you use the eye lash growing device, can they make your eye lashes grow

longer? we'll talk to a real live medical doctor. >> oh. >> i hate watching shots on tv. >> insections in the face. >> we'll find out if those things work. >> very important question of our time. also coming up, you may have heard of this ""inglourious basterd basterds" kristo wallace, you've got to meet him, he's fantastic. see that movie after you watch the "today" show in the morning. >> on the weekends. >> we have a lot of stuff coming out, this weekend the obamas, heading out for their martha's vineyard vacation, an expert guide to the gre things to see and do and eat there. will the obamas indulge? we'll try to check that out. you may buy the best coffee beans but are you ruining them with the wrong coffee makers? we'll do a taste test to find out which coffee makers brew the

best coffee. >> also, i decided to try the newest trend in sight-seeing, called a running tour. these are happening all over the country. they take you around the city, and you run about eight miles. >> that's not cool. >> there's all of us running on the brooklyn bridge and the tour guides have to be multitaskers, running and sweating and explains the sights and sounds of the city. >> was it cool, like a quick little one mile? >> eight miles, not so great. >> look forward to it, you guys. let's get a check of the weather. >> you'll be running in the rain drops if you're touring in the northeast over the weekend and new england saturday. we're looking at sizzling weather through the southwest, record highs in the plains and sunday look for more rain in the northeast and new england, sunny and hot throughout the southwest, down into texas, and also i;;;;; sunny in washington and points east but looking to the west,e'thits erquthere's quite

cloudiness where they are getting rain now in the mountains. the moderate downpours in western allegheny county. and the western part of west virginia's eastern panhandle. temperatures are certainly sweltering with the high humity in the low 80s, highs today low 90s, a likelihood of afternoon and evening thundershowers. a small chance of isolated storms could produce wind damage this afternoon. haous yrer andt'haou yesr latest weather. coming up next, your beauty regimen what, works and what doesn't, right after this. l

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this morning on "today's beauty" skin secrets revealed. the straight talk on what works and what does not when it comes to your beauty routine, dr. deborah watenberg. welcome. so many myths out there. you never quite know what's the right thing to buy. >> so myths come out, medical myths are here to stay because they're sent down from people of importance in your life, your mother, father, grandparents so they're hard to get rid of. >> we'll play the game, fact or fiction. so here is the first question for you. natural products are better than all other products. is that fact or fiction? >> that's not true. >> fiction. wow. >> fiction because just because something says it's natural does not necessarily mean it's better. the word natural is not regulated, there's no strict

definition and so any company can stamp the word "natural" onto its product and boom, they'll sell lots and lots of product. the bottom line is just because it's natural doesn't mean it's better and just because it's a chemical doesn't mean that it's bad for you. what's important is to find ingredients that work that are efficacious and have research behind them, whether it's natural or synthesized in the lab is irrelevant. >> you look at the different creams. some say face cream and some say body cream. the question is fact or fiction, body lotion should not be used on your face. >> that's actually true. >> you should not use it. >> you should not use it. >> why? >> the reason really is because now the companies have figured out ways to make these creams better and if you use a body lotion on your face you're not getting the benefit that you should be getting from your face cream. face creams are designed acording to skin type, is your skin dry or oily, acne prone, maybe it will have an ingredient that prevents brown spots or wrinkles. you're not getting the active

ingredients put into the facial moisturizers. >> if you don't have your face cream n a pinch? >> it's not going to hurt you for the most part but it's not going to give you the benefit you could get from some other creams as opposed to hand creams and face -- foot creams for example. >> yes. >> those sometimes contain ingredients that might hurt your face because they're designed to get rid of the callous on the skin and lactic acid might be irritating. >> next one, fact or fiction, applying foundation in an upwards direction will prevent wrinkles. >> okay, that's a really big myth. there is no evidence to support that the direction you apply your moisturizemoisturizer, fou going to make much of a difference. what's important is that wrinkles form because of the environment and genetics, the sun exposure. >> smoking. stuff like that. >> whether awe ply in a counterclockwise direction or clockwise direction is really irrelevant. >> here's a very interesting one, a lot of people here use these types of products, those different lash-growing products.

can they lengthen your lashes? is that fact or fiction? >> this is fact, and it's really an amazing fact. these new products that are on the market have been shown to actually increase the length of your eye lashes, darken them and make them thicker. there are lots of products on the market so you need to be careful because some of the ones that are over-the-counter are not fda approved and you want to look for the one that is fda approved called latief. it's been tested shown to be effective and it words. side effects are problematic, it can cause eyelid irritation and discoloration of the iris, the color around your eye. if you have light eyes you want to be careful. use this under the guidance of a physician to make sure, because if that color changes it's permane permanent. >> kathie lee is using one of the rapid lash, her lashes are crazy, crazy long, it's working that like that. >> worksñi well. >> we'll look at her eye color soon. at the end, can creams cure stretch marks? fact or fiction? >> that'sñi actually not true.

>> stretch marks are yours. >> stretch marks are yours. they're scars, don't goñi away with some creams. look for products like retinae or receipt knol, some glycolic acids will fade them out. when the skin stretches is doesn't always bounce back. >> great advice. thanks for clearing up the anys for us. thq's more on how to care for your skin on our website, the stars of "inglourious basterds" is downstairs, after this. great. yea, mom you're the best. i thought you would like it. so, how are your classes, are you enjoying them? (announcer) it's morehan just that great peanut taste, choosing jif is a simple way to show someone how much you care. we can't wait to get you home. i love you mom. i love you too. we'll see you soon. choosey moms, choose jif.

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>> you have to admit t is catchy. >> do you control the nicknames, out of the pa a patchie and the little man? >> the german's nickname for me is the little man? >> and as if to make my point i'm a little surprised how tall you were in real life, when you're a little fellow but on the surface just little. >> christoph, good morning. >> good morning. >> colonel hanz landa is nicknamed the jew hunter but how do you get inside a character like that? >> you don't. there was one little thing snipped off at the beginning of this scene we just saw, i'm a detective, a very good detecttive. so you know, i found that more interesting than the nazi bit, because you know, the uniform sort of conveys enough nazi, and i'm more interested in the details that are behind that

uniform. >> and this piece that was written by director quentin tarantino is to layered, your character is the most complicated and he says if you had not walked in the door and auditioned he would not have made this movie, he's been working on for ten years. that has got to be high praise. >> yes, it is, and to a degree, where it's beyond me commenting on it, what should i say about it? it makes me blush, brings tears to my eyes. >> you're humbled by this whole thing. >> not necessarily humbled. i'm realistic about it, you know. quentin wrote this thing. it's his baby. it's all his vision. it's his, you know, quentin is incarnated cinema, and finally he works on this for ten years and finally puts ittogether, and i get the chance to participate and contribute as much as i can. what else can one expect? >> well, i think that what's

happened is that we now know he made the perfect decision, because "usa today" is basically says you dominate the movie. we've got "l.a. times," you give an unforgettable performance. "the new york post" says you steal the show. you won an award at the cannes film festival for this. this has to be a bit overwhelming for you. >> a bit? it's totally overwhelming. >> first you were skeptical of the movie. >> well, not -- i'm not skeptical of the movie at all, you know. i think it's a fantastic treat on every level in every respect. i was a bit skeptical after my first reading the script, because i didn't, i couldn't imagine how to put all of this together. you know, there's so much in it, and again, on every level of consciousness, energy, story, characters, so it kind of exploded in my face. >> i cannot tell you how good

you are in this movie. we want to say this is not a movie for children. it's an intense movie, quentin tarantino movie. ironically you come from four generations of people in theater >> yes. >> you're not still really sure whether you are to be an actor, is that correct? i did get that right? >> yes, in a way you do, i'm afraid. skepticism i find a very helpful approach. overwhelming apriori enthusiasm very often results in, you know, an ermous backlash, so i guard myself against backlash. >> listen, don't worry, christoph wallets waltz, i woul surprised if you did not get an oscar nomination for this. great to meet you. >> thanks for having me. >> "inglourious basterds" opens today. coming up one more song from natasha bedingfield.

last-minute labor day getaway ideas. >> and kathie lee and i will catch one billy ray cyrus. >> miley's dad, yes. still moun one-more song from natasha bedingfield. >> have a great weekend, everybody. ♪ ♪ i am unwritten, can't read my mind, i'm undefined ♪ ♪ i'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned ♪ ♪ staring at the blank page before you, open up the dirty window ♪ ♪ let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find ♪ ♪ reaching for something in the

distance ♪ ♪ so close you could almost taste it ♪ ♪ release your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin ♪ ♪ no one else can feel it for you, only you can let it in ♪ ♪ no one else, no one else can speak the words on your lips ♪ ♪ drench yourself in words unspoken, live your life with arms wide open ♪ ♪ today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten ♪ ♪ içó break tradition, sometime my tries are outside the lines ♪ ♪ we've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but i can't live that way ♪ ♪ staring at the blank page before you, open up the dirty window ♪ ♪ let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find ♪ ♪ reaching for something in the

distance, so close you can almost taste it ♪ ♪ release your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin ♪ ♪ no one else can feel it for you, only you can let it in ♪ ♪ no one else, no one else can speak the words on your lips ♪ ♪ drench yourself in words unspoken, live your life with arms wide open ♪ ♪ today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten ♪ ♪ staring at the blank page before you, open up the dirty window ♪ ♪ let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find ♪ ♪ reaching for something i the distance, so close you could almost taste it ♪ ♪ release your inhibitions ♪ feel the rain on your skin

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it's a hot and hazy day here. time 9:55 in the nation's capital this friday, august 21, 2009. good morning. .isbm haarbaonrra tew hehes n f ce inpr ili wil inince william whatstheate cy t ligstate what they call herdmu murder/suicide. ig chbs oorle oerfficers last ghge slieffnou c siegel court rimfdues.es it hadin s tceee whey since tseo .ensehecoup.bo.es dieyrees. tht, only sayingbong he nlyet, oy saying they are a husband and wife in their 50s. a pedestrian in fairfax county is dead after being hit by a car in centreville. it happened this morning near singleton's way. the driver stayed at the scene of the accident. there is no word on the identity of the victim. police are still investigating. in montgomery county, three firefighters are hurt after battling a fire at a home.

it began before 5:00 this morning. the home is on featherwood street in silver spring. the fire forced two families out. they got out safely. the firefighters, three of them, suffered minor injuries. a check on the weather now. tom kierein, good morning. >> good morning. we have warm and hid conditions this morning. it's the waest, muggiest morning of the summer so far. now we're climbing into the mid 80s, should hit the low 90s. a likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms. a storm could produce damaging winds 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. could get showers tonight. otherwise mostly cloudy and steamy and humid on saturday. may be a morning shower or passing afternoon thundershower. could have brief heavy downpours tomorrow afternoon and early evening. thenn sunday, drying out and lower humidity moving in. it should linger into next week. highs in the mid 80s and sunshine back as well. as we get toward the end of next week, the humidity may come back

up a bit again, perhaps by the end of the week. let's check traffic. late morning, how is it looking? >> okay. good were mooing. we'll go south of town here, the approach to the woodrow wilson bridge. the inner and outer loop doing fine. let's see headed for downtown, not bad. 395 northbound all cleared out. to and across the inbound 14th street bridge. >> tonight at 5:00 imagine wearing the same outfit for a month straight. one woman did it. how she pulled it off. how she pulled it off. the little black dress lesson.t,

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that's hoda and i in bed together. >> who is the person in the middle? >> 4[5e9ñ >> $13.49 per bottle. >> including your custom labels. that is anf'ú adorable idea. let's go into the wine business. come on, everybody needs a second job around here. >> we sort of are in the wine $ business. >> i love "today." >> there's a new study. >> there always is. >> this one says that living together, this is controversial, living together before marriage can increase the chances of divorce. so if you live together, according to this study from the university of denver, you have a higher expectancy of getting divorced than those who do not live together. do you believe -- >> here's my theory on that. all the romance in your relationship goes out the window when you start sharing a bathroom. okay? so -- >> i could never share a bathroom. >> i know it.zv

you start living together, th physical, and you start sharing mortgages andóom youñi start clg up doggy poo together andñi doi life together instead of romance together, then -- >> but you have that when you're married or living together, right? >> yeah but when you were married you have a contract, it's going to cost you. there's a reason, you might have children by that time. there are still reasons to try and stay and work it out. >> the bathroom. >> your favorite place. >> i think it would be reallyu hard, i mean i know -- i would have a lot of trouble sharing a bathroom, because i did for a little while, but two bathrooms are i think essential. >> a lot of people cannot afford two bathrooms, hoda. >> i would forego my kitchen for the second bathroom. >> you've never been inside the kitchen. >> i don't need a kitchen. i would rather have two bathrooms an a kitchen. >> the only kitchen she's ever been in, in her life is the one in the studio. >> i have one but i don't go in there much. my oven is nice(j storage. it's got plenty of room.

i think that would be hard. >> for those of you who might want to find ways of+ conceali not a problem, butçz3ñ probably problem, this is not what it looks like. it looks just like it's a mobile phone but actually it holds -- >> oh, no. trouble. >> three ounces of liquid so i guess you could put any77 liqu in there. >> water. >> it could be diet coke. >> water. >> it could be water, or it could be -- >> is it like a flas >> it's cold. >> it's cold and it's adorable and it could be yours at after five catalogue. >> it continues. >> i know it but it doesn't have the whole catalogue. >> the "g" is at the end. >> i was spelling it the english way with an "e." >> $26.99. >> and it includes a funnel. >> oh, my gosh. >> a leather case and a belt clip. you want a romantic gift for that guy you're living with that you're not going to get married

because you're going to break up before because you're sharing a bathroom, this',6)j e=k perfect for him. >> here's something they did, kind of funny, at an aquarium in london. they wanted a zebra shark to mate with another zebra shark, and they could not. >> but the zebr want to mate. >> couldn't get em together. what did they do? they played a little barry white. here's what happened. ♪ >> oh, yeah. >> so they played this for the sharks. ♪ >> we got to try toñi get together. ♪ can't get enough of your love baby ♪ >> did it work? what happened?;únñ >> yes. >> oh, gosh. >> okay, wait. did it work? >> not yet. >>ñ@+ >> got to try, they're trying rm9ñ we're talking about romance, that's what it is. there's not enough romance at all >> you're telling me? >> no, that's your little thing. >> i think we need a whole lot li a little less sex. there's an idea for a few minutes.

because romance will lead to better sex. >> yes, i do agree and again, with the rabbi shmueli thing,t( depriving, wanting. >> it works. >> did you know this, that aé5& broken w>aheart, sometimes when you're ;orsad, you feel like my heartx,, >> because it does. >> there is a study out there that says that you physically have physical pain when you are in an argument with someone or when your heart's broken, and you really feel it. it's clinical. >> it's biological and it's real. >> they say it's a rare variation of the moopoid receptor gene. >> i always thought that's what it was. >>kiáq there's something in the brain that triggers real pain. >> almost like a heartburn. >> you've had that heart broken. >> better to have itxd broken a to experience. better to have love and --

>> never to have lovedñr at all. >> i'm still on medication. this is the longest cold of my life. >> tell me about it. we've been hearing a lot about tony dungy lately. he is the spiritual adviser to ñ i don't know if you're aware of that. he's the super bowl winning coach from the colts and all around good guy. everybody knows him. he's the real deal, a great, great guy. rightñi now, aboutab school students are about to go into football. so a friend of mine has done a really fantastic film with tony] dungy, called red zone '09. it's going to be seen in 450 theaters around the country, next tuesday night exclusive theater event by satellite,xd tuesday, august 25th. and if you have afm

ethics and just good stuff that's going to help your kid better be prepared for the very violent gameym of football. check that out. >> you can learn a lot of lessons from football, any sport. >> you can learn so many things from team sports, tony dungy's r-?u? zone '09. >> "glamour" magazine has this deal out. when we stand in front of a mirror often the first thing we look at, oh, my god, lookzv at stomach, my thighs, i don't want to/w turn around, blah, blah, blah.xgg we have aer isible self-perception, that's one of yourñi issues. >> it is? >> every picture, that's your achilles heel. tell the truth. >> zg7automatic' honest unlike e peopl i know. >> in "glamour" they had a picture of axd 20-year-old mode

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listen closely, billy ray cyrus singing "a good day." >> 17 years ago he burst on to the scenewith his song "achy breaky heart" way before hannah montana or miley cyrus was a glimmer in his eye. with five kids and acting career and 11th album in stores called "back to tennessee" that achy breaky heart is truly a thing of the jovpast. >> although it did start the whole thing on a roll. >> it sure did. welcome. >> "good day" is my new single and spreading mike mayonnaise. >> you are -- you got a little

thing going. now we're here ñhelmann's has that great project, go online, facebook, make a sandwich and send it to your friends and for every sandwich that you make, helmann's donates seven lunches to feed america. it's a great program. >> so your sound, "achy breaky heart" capture etured everybody. is it similar to the old stuff? >> the album "back to tennessee" is the perfect mix ofi] everythg that i've always been, the music that i was raised on, my southern rock influences, my straight up country roots, along with the stuff where i'm at now and where i'm going to the future. i live a lot of different styles of music and i've always made a lot of diverse music, because1+ just love all forms of music. ñust love all forms of music. >> i write songs, i writeñi whai

live and live what i'm writing and sing about the two. >> how do you have time for everything? you've got so many different projects going on at once.wn >> and life at home, too. >> i finished up this fill well jackie chan and george lopez "the spy next door." i play jackie chan's sidekick and george lopez is a bit of the villain which is funny in itself because he's such a nice guy. i start a new movie monday in vancouver ([÷x"christmas in can written by kenny rogers, on the allmark channel, i'm excite about that and the tour going on in full throttle mode and the fans great, and the new single "good day" is doing great at radio. i'm having a blast. >> the littlest daughter, noah. >> yes. >> she's going into the business as well, a little voice on that new disney show. >> "tanyo." >> how old is she? >> she's 9. >>vg6árq can sing, too. >> she sings, dances.

she spent the week with me last week up in the poconos at caesars. we went out on the lake and went fishing. we went back to tennessee and she had been looking for the perfect horse, and she found this 19-year-oldxd little horse that she just fell in love with and the horse fell in love with her and she now has her first horse, his name is gizmo. we had the best week, she and i. >> do you think she'll go the way of miley, your or?ghr te yoi daughter? >> you know what? i'd like to say that she could just kick back and just be a kid. >> be a kid. >> but she loves making music.  acting. that's her art and that's kind what have we do. my mom and dad,ñi my mom and. we all lovedçó playing music. we play by ear and we play what we feel and that's the way we release our emotions and i think that's what noah's probably going to do. she sure seems to love t but my motto is with all the kids, you know, as long as you're happy, it's working, but the moment you

ain't happy, then do something else. >> it's in their dna but that doesn't mean it will be an easy road. miley just got criticism for the teen choice awards. >> there are no easy roads, and no matter what you do there's always going to be smebody out there that's got an opinion or there that's got an opin> and let's pass the plate and take up a little offering. you>>ot ganiches. couple you got it. >> thank you sot much. ry much. you good time tocomo tmeoi t > it's huge. >> they'll pack them in, always one of the biggest ones of the season. up next, when love and money ab not mix. >> really? >> that's what they're sayin right after this.ñi exhibit she wants to see more

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♪ we need love and money we're back with "today's relationships" talking about loveand money. >> face it, you and your partner probably talk about every intimate topic except sometimes the green stuff. we sent sara haynes tothe streets to find out the real deal when it comes to couples and their cash. >> in relationships you often have someone good with money and someone not as good. >> i'm good with money. >> reporter: are you good with money? >> no. >> she's conservative. i try get her to buy stuff but she won't. well it's a lot of money. i say so? >> i have more of a shopping habit than jeff does. >> she's more of an impulse spender than i am. >> has it ever come to heated discussions when it comes to money and you guys? >> yes. >> a little bit. usually when i want to buy something she says no. >> it's all aboutcommunication, especially when it comes down to money. >> we usually discuss it a

little, and then he's going to go do what he wants anyway. >> in any marriage, money is always going to be a situation, whenever you have a wife or a husband doesn't have a spending problem. >> you never come in the door sneaking in shopping bags and -- you don't do that? >> no. not me. >> she doesn't do that? >> not that i know of. >> maybe she's good at that. >> maybe she is. >> you've seen her come in with shopping bags are you ever like, ugh? >> i'm happy i'm not paying the american express bill. >> yet. >> yet. >> with us the author of "you're so money" and clinical psychologist jeff gardere. hello to both of you. >> hi. >> hi. >> this is one of the topics, it can be a relationship breaker sometimes. >> it is. very serious, critical thing. >> as freud would say no, money, no honey, because the reality is that we need this money in order to live, and if you have one member of the couple or both who are really screwing around with

that money and not taking care of it the way that they should, it's going to impact how they live as a couple, and what their family can realize as far as the future, which may be nothing if they're not wise about it. >> so you got to talk about it, but often people just have different philosophies about it. some people believe you should enjoy and spend and some people are savers. >> you're not supposed to have a conversation about whose philosophy is right or wrong, it's about finding cmmon ground. when you're dating this is the time to find out some of the key areas how someone is spending and saving. some of the ice breaker questions i like, because it is invasive, you don't want to come right at it and sort of feel like you're spying on the other person when you're just dating a couple of months. "how did you afford college?" college is where a lot of peoplr get into debt. maybe you can reveal what your debt loads are there, and get sort of -- or did you work your way through college, get a sense of the person's work ethic. another good question, what did your parents teach but money and include your own experiences.

my mom was a big coupon cutter, a great way to find out about their money personality. >> tells you about their culture around money. >> culture. >> these days that's important, before the great recession, maybe it was about spending and having a good time but as president obama has said, you know, we have now this teachable moment, and it really is about preserving the money, and being very wise about how we take care of our finances. >> the young kids today have never grown up without plastic. when i was growing up my father used to say if you don't have the money in your pocket, the cash to buy something, you simply can't afford it. i think that was a better way, because you never bought stuff you couldn't afford. >> people can't afford anything. you cannot without, i don't think without credit cards if everyone paid cash i don't think you'd have anything in your savings. >> the problem with the credit cards you're deferring the payment and these days we don't want to do that anymore. >> you lose track of how much you're spending. >> absolutely. you'll tell them all about that. >> i think there is something to be said about an income problem in the country where you're

living standards is far more than you're able to afford so what i tell a lot of young people especially when they're young and got that body clock ticking, that can keep them up late at night, find that second job, work from home on the weekends, find ways to increase revenue streams. >> what if your boyfriend or girlfriend is hiding debt. >> probably hiding something else. >> and that's just the tip of the iceberg, if someone has a real issue with their finances it, could be a symptom of something else going on, maybe even a depression, where they're spending just to, you know, take care of themselves psychologically. >> a little counseling with a guy like you. >> self-medicating. >> thank you so much. >> nkhayou. still to come, last-minute getaway deals. >> after this. mars is down...and... um, it's only 10am. who hasn't had their jimmy dean breakfast this morning? mmmm! now lets orbit i feel awesome.

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we're back on this friday with "today's travel" and deals for a labor day getaway. >> if you haven't had a chance to pack your bags and get r & r this summer this is for you. nina waldorf editor of "budget travel." nice to see. >> sure. summer's almost over but we're seeing some of the des deals of the season now so this is a great opportunity to make some lasting memories over the last long weekend >> sometimes the trips you take at the spur of the moment end up being the best. >> i agree. >> let's start with the cruises. a lot of people enjoy that kind of contained fun. >> yeah, so royal caribbean is doing a labor day cruise through the bahamas leaving out of port canaveral. cruise for $262 per person

>> that includes all of your food. you got to buy your own booze but that's amazing. >> amazing. "the monarch of the seas" is called a floating las vegas. there's incredible entertainment, they have musicals, there's casinos, everything you could want. >> rock climbing and the whole bit. >> spa and fitness center and great food so it's fun for everyone. >> if you're someone who likes the beach and i love this deal you're about to tell us about, mexicois hot. >> mexico has had a rough year. >> t y e,sureavhav swine flu didn't help but that's over. e> restrictions are over and they opened u and they're doing everything they can to get you down there. there is and hotel -- >> look atow h pretty that is. >> this is on the riviera maowy south of cancun. they are doing a deal, $58 per person per night through travelticker.com. >> what are the rooms like? >> the rooms a super nice and a lot of all-inclusive resorts which this one is, nickel and

dime you. this deald ilunces everything, taxes. >> $58 for the food? >> taxes, tips, activities, drinks. >> forget t i it, i'm going thi weekend. >> sign me up. >> so if you enjoy the wilderness, tahoe may be the place you want to hit. >> any time of the year. >> exactly. summer is comes alive and there's a hotel the lakeland village mountain and beach resort, it's right on the lake, which is the largest alpine lake in north america. >> it is so gorgeous. >> the air is crystal clear. >> $112. >> da, maybe go there. >> half off. it's really, they have a free kids program, kitchenette in the room so you don't have to go out for every meal and they have access to their very own white sand beach on the lake. >> wow. >> great water sports, fun way to spend some time with the family. >> chicago is a nice spot for some people and easier to get to for a lot of folks. >> along the lake, too, in the summertime, a lot of activity. >> there's so much to do.

hotels.c is doing a promotion over labor day weekend, hotels around the country up to 40% off. there's one in chicagolu called the raphaelo. $149 a night, over half off over labor day weekend and it's amazing location, right on the lake michigan. there's a rooop garden with panoramic views of the magnificent mile. >> the hotels are great but how are flights? are they pricey? can you go get to these locations? >> last-minute flikts aghts are accessible and chicago it's accessible in the midwest for folks who want to take a hop skip and a jump. >> what about panama? >> take advantage of the long weekend and go someplace far. a tour operator at "budget travel" called escapes unlimited, a three-day tour of panama for $979. this includes your flight from i,miam three nights in panama

city, and a tour of the panama canal, so it's a great introduction to the count if you've never been there, try it out. >> it's hurricane season, does that -- >> it's iffy. the thing about last-minute travel you can look and see what it's going to be like. >> not so great in nantucket this weekend. >> last, my favorite, favorite, italy! i talia! >> exactly. this is an incredible deal. why not sleep in a 19th century villa in italy and a road trip through the tuscan countryside. >> george clooney's place.> it's $1,199, sounds like a splurge but consider the fact flights alone this time of year are $800 so you're getting your nights in the villa, dinner in a wine cave, you're getting your car rental. this is like a trip of a lifetime that is just so

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we're back with "today's kitchen" gettin' saucy chef ming is with us. >> owner of blue restaurant in massachusetts and finds time to host tv's "simply ming." he's here with a sushi lesson for us. >> weigh doer sushi. >> we call it sushi 101, why? because anyone can make it. we're combining white rice with brown rice. this is sushi rice that's been washed four times so the water's ear. >> really? >> sushi rice is different? >> it's a short grain rice. >> sticky rice. >> it's sticky rice. this is sushi rice with the water. now i'm going to drain a little water off. we have a technique i learned from my grandparents called mt.

fuji. you put this rice in. now i put my hand in here until the water touches there, mt. fuji, the knuckle. that's how much water you need or put your finger in, exactly the amount of water you theed. get a rice cooker, under 100 bucks, turn it on and you end up with sushi rice, perfectly cooked. come on back. because now we have, this is the rice i'm going to take a little bit of this, this is a japanese pine bowl. why do you need that? you need that because the hot team gets absorbed into the wood. >> into the wood. >> this is brown rice. >> you mix brown and white. >> make it healthier. then you have soo. this is vinegar, miren and sugar. miren is a sweet saki.

>> aski to me, baby. >> it helps bring the sweetness out of the fish. >> just a little. you didn't put a lot. >> not a lot. >> you want to moisturize it. >> exactly, anti-aging. there's a great story. you take a cloth like this and gather all of the rice together. this is ready to go. there's not one kernel by itself. when i was trained to do this, it dies and gets lonely. if you eat sushi and it's crunchy. let's roll the sushi. i'll give you a mat. grab a piece of nori, seaweed. shiny side dow it's all about beauty. the shiny side down. >> oh, boy. >> get your hands wet. >> she's hacking. she's fine. she's good. >> hands wet so the rice doesn't stick to your fingers. fill the bottom half, gently press it, fill the bottom half. doesn't have to be perfect.

once you roll t it's going to come together but you have to fill the bottom half. kathie lee all right? >> i'm fine, just got a cold. >> a little one. >> ignore me. >> a little bit more. spread it out thinner than that. >> thinner, follow his rules. >> okay. here i'll help you. that's all right, you're not going to eat it. >> keep going. go, go. >> two pieces of salmon. >> i'm going to excuse myself. >> she's fine if anyone's worried. >> she's good. >> medics? >> she hasn't eaten my food yet so i know it's not my food. that i know. >> put a little bit of, yes. >> this is the art. you lift up, fingers on the cucumber. now you try to touch the top rice to the bottom rice. if that touches, then it's centered, then you bring the sushi mat down. >> okay. >> you need the mat and bring it down. hold it. you pull it a little bit to

tighten, lift up the mat and you come and roll it. >> tada! >> you're back! >> i'm way behind. >> okay. >> like that. >> you roll it? >> you use the mat to roll, like that. >> okay. >> now square it off. hold it for one, two, three. sushi. >> that is so skillful. >> you got to role it with the mat. >> i forgot the mat. >> you have the filling in the center. not bad. >> look at this. >> i screwed up big time. look at my sushi roll. >> pretty good, hoda! you probably didn't grow up eating sushi. >> that is awesome. >> i love sushi. >> do we have some to munch on? >> this is for youñr beauties. we'll lay them out and here we ittle bit of soyçó lime ere we syrup. >> and wasabi. >> look who's ready to eat.

>> we'll put this up here. >> w3ming, thank you. >> it's delicious. >> so sorry. >> this is not just about fish. >> we got to roll, baby. >> pancoçó ñiñichicken, great c salad and lemonade ginger cocktail. >> on our website. you're the best. up next, a country music performance after this. introducing new tide stain release. it helps get the toughest stains out the first time. whoa, that's a first. (announcer) that's because new tide stain release is a revolutionary in-wash booster... ... that works with your detergent... to help remove the toughest stains the first time. mom, let me grab that. another first. (announcer) new tide stain release. stains out. no doubt.

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the country trio love and fest met just three short years ago. already they've had a chance to perform at the grand ol' opry and release a hit single "runaway." now their debut album "worldwide open" in stores next tuesday. congratulations. hot, hot, hot! and you've got an announcement for us. >> big news for us. >> our album comes out tuesday but we're ing on tuesday starting in september with jason aldine. >> he's been on the show before. >> we're huge fans of his. >> are you friends from way

back? >> we met in nashville actually. >> from different parts of the country. >> we became best friends pretty much the moment we met. it's amazingly naturally. >> you're all runaway, making a different life. >> we dropped out of college around the same time and moved to nashville and here we are. >> what are you going to play for us? >> "runaway" our single. >> take it away, guys. ♪ it's been a long week, i've got a slow leak in my left front tire ♪ ♪ i'm sick of where i work, my boss is such a jerk ♪ ♪ don't care if i get fired ♪ my back's about to break, no money in the bank, and she don't call me anymore ♪

♪ i'm down to my last drink, it's time to sell my things ♪ ♪ and pack my bags and never look back ♪ ♪ run a parallel line with the railroad tracks, and make my getaway ♪ ♪ i'll put the pedal to the metal as the sun goes down ♪ ♪ leave everyone sleepin' in this sleepy town tonight ♪ ♪ and at the break of day, i'll be a runaway ♪ ♪ i'll be a runaway, yeah ♪ a hundred miles in, i've got a stupid grin on my scruffy face ♪ ♪ with every cigarette, i'm burnin' my regret, don't wanna leave a trace ♪ ♪ and from my rear view, i've got a clear view of who i used

to be ♪ ♪ a little bit faster now, don't wanna turn around ♪ ♪ gonna pack my bags and never look back, run a parallel line with the railroad tracks ♪ ♪ and make my getaway ♪ i'll put the pedal to the metal as the sun goes down ♪ ♪ leave everybody sleepin' in this sleepy town tonight, ♪ ♪ and at the break of day, i'll be a runaway ♪ ♪ i'll be a runaway ♪ i'll be a run with a a way, yeah ♪ ♪ i'll be a runaway ♪ i'll be a runaway ♪ it's crazy, i know, to count on this road to give me what i need ♪ ♪ but with every state line, somehow i find anotherart of

me, yeah ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm gonna pack my bags and never look back, run a parallel line with the railroad tracks ♪ ♪ and make my getaway ♪ i'll put the pedal to the metal as the sun goes down, leave everybody sleepin' in this sleepy town tonight ♪ ♪ and at the break of day, i'll be a runaway ♪ ♪ i'll be a runaway ♪ i'll be a runaway

>> there they are, love and fest, great to have you with us. all of the best with the album and the tour this fall. first this is "today" on nbc. we'll be back in a moment. way to go, guys, awesome!

that does i for thus friday. as we sign you off we'll leave you with the week that was. thank you guys. have a great weekend, everybody. god bless. >> is it just more sex or great sex? >> more. >> we'll be happy with any underwear at all. >> a little man sandwich, love it. >> i don't like this on the air. >> compared to the stuff on the air, you're saying that? >> oh, my gosh!

>> thanks, mark. >> thank you. >> still to come -- >> all right, trouble. we don't exchange body fluid or anything. >> let's move on. >> not yet. >> oh! >> i need some air in here. >> i'm starting to like this, training for a triathlon, not finding a husband. rob is hot. ♪ everybod loving my willie scott ♪ >> i take the b.o. any day because you can get away from it. >> wow!